Author(s): Bali Rai

Fiction

Rani is an Indian girl growing up in modern-day Britain with over-protective parents and a sinister older brother. Sukh's family is more enlightened, but neither of them realises that their relationship will only lead to terrible trouble, for Rani is a Sandhu and Sukh is a Bains. Forty years earlier the families used to be friends back in the Punjab, until a tragedy caused a bitter feud that still exists. This powerful and passionate Romeo-and-Juliet-style story spans two generations and sweeps us back and forward in time as it unfolds the dramas of a ceaseless cycle of hatred and conflict. Will Rani's and Sukh's love survive or will it blow their worlds apart? A stirring, and sometimes violent, novel for 14-year-olds and older.